Bob Berman's strange universe: Behind the galaxy
October 2004: Only if you prep your friends with mouth-watering stories will their excitement overcome the brutal fact that M31 looks smudgy and ill defined.
Contributed by Bob Berman
Published:
October 1, 2004
| The Andromeda Galaxy, overhead this month from much of North America, is no weirder than your average cheeseburger. So why talk about it on a page that usually explores strange things? Simple: If you don't go into the oddities of that bright naked-eye galaxy, it probably shouldn't be shown to anyone. |
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